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VOL. XX. No. 303
SECOND EDITION
KINSTON, N. C, MONDAY, MARCH 31 1919
FOUR PAGES TODAY FfFSFl
riVS CENTS ON TBATO
BERLIN HOPES 'BREAK WITH ENTENTE
OVER DANZIG CAN BE AVOIDED; FQCII
SAID TO HAVE INVITED HUNS TO TALK
Allied Generalissimo Has Asked That Plenipotentiary Be
Sent to Spa, Reported Strike at Essen Increasing-
40,000 Spartacans Demanding Walkout Throughout
Central Europe Report to London Says Germans May
Agree to Give Up Danzi? if Poles Are Kept Out Pend
ing Peace Settlement Newspapers Approve Pro
posal for Further Negotiations
(By the United Prees)
iierlin, Mar. 30 (Delayed). Hope grew in official
circles here today that the Danzig question might be set
tled without a break with the. Allies. Newspapers ap
proe the proposal for further negotiations with the Al
lies regarding their demand that Polish troops be per
mitted to land at Danzig.
Marshal Foch la said to have ex
tended an Invitation for a plenipo
tentiary to meet him at Spa to dis
cuss the matter.
The strike at Essen is Increasing
Over 40,000 workers under Spar
tacan leadership are demanding
eeneral strike throughout Central
Europe.
. London, Mar. 30. The Berlin cor
respondent of the Mail says there is
good reason to believe Germany will
give way regarding the Danzig ques
tion if the lAillies agree that Polish
troops shall not actually remain in
Danzig pending the establishment of
Will Go to Spa. "'?""'
Berne, Mar. 31. The German gov
ernment has decided to send Mathias
Erzbcrger to Spa to confer with
Marshal Foch regarding the Danzig
situation, according to a Berlin dis
patch. '
Salvation Army to ,
Open Drive Office
Here in a Few Days
Atlanta, Mar. 31. The opening
: gun in the national drive for the Sal
vation Army home service fund will
be fired in Kinston this week with
the arrival of Lemuel B. Green, who
will be in charge of the campaign
here. The canvass for funds will
commence May 19 and will close
May 26. -
Upon Mr. Green's arrival here he
will open an office from where he
will direct the campaign and a prom
inent citizen "will be made chairman
of the local general committee in
charge of raising funds for the cause.
The territory Will be mapped out
and every section canvassed. Cap
tains and lieutenants and corps of
workers will soon be on the job to add
impetus to the campaign. "
Work on Soldiers'
Homes to Go Ahead
(By the United Press)
Washington, iMar. 31. Not with
standing the defeat through a Re
publican filibuster in the Senate of
an appropriation of $100,000,000 with
which to provide homes- for men of
the army and the navy, the Depart
ment of the Interior has begun pre
liminary work on the construction of
settlements for thousands of sol
diers, sailors and marines.
Thirty two Btates have already tak
en action either by appropriate leg
islation or by the appointment of
committees to cooperate with the
Federal Government in realizing Sec
retary Lane's plans for soldier-settlements.
These include Norh Caro
lina. ,' fWJjfl
The defeat of the bill by the Re
publicans will greatly delay the work
BULLETINS
CASUALS LAND.
New York, Mar. 31. Casual
-companies from South Carolina
and North Carolina arrived here
aboard a transport today.
COAL PRODUCTION OFF.
Washington, Mar. 31. Coal
production during the week end
ing March 22 reached the lowest
mark recorded in weekly coal
' outputs since Christmas.
NO FOOLISHNESS
FOR WILSON.
Paris, Mar. 31. President
Wilson today threatened to use
the clnb of pitiless publicity in '
an effort to speed up the peace
conference. Recording to per
sons close to the President he is
said to have intimated .to .JhtL
others of the big four that un
less their sessions begin to show
real results soon he will publish
to the world the facts as to who
delayed the peace settlement and
why. . .
OLD HICKORY MEN
FETED AT COLUMBIA
(By the United Press)
Columbia, Mar. 31. The heroes of
the' 30th (OW Hickory) Division
were feted today as guests of the
Palmetto State.. A five-mile parade
was reviewed by Governor Cooper,
Brigadier-General Tyson and other
officials as a feature of the festivi
ties. South Carolina boys were in
the 105th Ammunition Train and
118th Infantry. : f
Charlie Comiskey
Has a Great Gian
Name Every Volunteer
is Wanted for List
The Free Press has a list of hun
dreds of Lenoir County men serving
in the war. It will publish the whole
Ikst" Shortly in bound form. It wants
to omit no name. Please send in the
name of any volunteer you may know
of not already printed in the list
which has been carried in this paper
for a week past, i In case of doubt
telephone it anyway. The office will
see that there is no duplication.
Here are latest additions:
Frank R. Brown.
E. Frank Hooker.
Paul F. Whitaker.
Marvin M. Whitaker.
James T. Wooten.
Noah Crane.
Luke Crane.
tBy the United Press)
Chicago, Mar. Si. "There were
giants in those days" was not writ
ten of baseball. But here a a giant
that works for Charles A. Comiskey,
owner of the Chicago White Sox
Age, 761 years.
Height, 159 feet ten inches.
Weight, 4,779 pounds.
He's a composite of the 28
now signed to earn dividends
summer for the "old Roman."
This .monster baseball player of
Comiskcy's is ambidextrous. He bats
right handed 16 times, then hops to
the right side of the old dish for 12
tries. .
Twenty-three times of 28 he throws
with his right hand, then comes up
with five left ha-nded efforts.
For the most part he's married
This bird bats .256 and fields .967,
pretty fair averages for an all-round
man.
Further juggling of the figures
shows the average member of the
White Sox squad is 27 1-2 years old,
has been on the team 4.8 years, is
5 feet nine and one-half inches tall
and weighs 170.6 pounds.
That's what "Com my" and Glea4
son have to work with this season.
NOT; ASHAMED OF THE BILL
MA I )KS CHATEAU THIERRY mft
iff r .
AMERICANS REFUSE iWASIIHTON SEEKS
TO COOPERATE WITH
JAPS IN SIBERIA
Rotary Helps Fight .
Venereal Diseases
Livestock Breeders
Foreign Lands Listed
Washington, Mar. 31. During the
past year, in cooperation with the
consular service of the Department
of State the Department of Agricul
ture has assembled extensive lists
of livestock breeders, importers, and
associations of breeders in European
countries, in order to supply the de
mand of American breeders and im
porters for such information.
Lists for the following countries
have been completed and mime
ographed for circulation: The United
Kingdom, France, Italy, Switzer
land, Spain, Holland, Denmark, Al
geria. Uopies or tnese lists may oc
of the states 'as well as that nt ti 'scored ' unon annlication to the di
Federal Government, for their indi-jvision of foreign market investiga
Vidual schemes depend on the suc-.tions.
cess of the Interior Denartment's
plans.
SOVIET ELECTIONS
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IN HUNGARY
Increase of 20 P. C.
in Telegraph Rates
An increase of 20 per cent, in com
mercial telegraph rates will go into
effect Tuesday by order of Post-maeter-Generat
Burleson. Manager
D. R. Smith of the Western Union
office here Monday said all com
mercial and Government messages
An exception will
(By the United Press)
Budapest, Mar. 31. Foreign Min
ister Bela Kun in a oublic iteech de- will be affected
clared soviet elections would be held be made of press business, which will
within a fortnight, one for the die-' remain unchanged.
tatoTship. Thie, he said, does not The postmaster-general is quoted
'"fan terror. The latter will pre- as saying increased cost of opera-
(Special to The Free Press)
Washington, iMar. 81. Realizing
the seriousness of the prevalence of
venereal disease in civic communities
the United States, the Rotary
Club has been very quick to recog
nize the importance of the fight the
Government is waging upon thi3
menace, and 13 cooperating wren tne
Public Health Service with an ag
gressiveness that is' producing good
results. ' . :
The appeal of one club in a small
town in Mississippi was so earnest
and convincing that instead of $500
as requested for the establishment
of a clinic there, $1,000 was made
available.
The clubs in Ohio . have been
pecially active in this campaign
es-
Four Women Bound
Over for Vagrancy;
Go to Superior Court
Mabel Holmes, Flonnie Gulley,
Lilly Gulley and Annie Belle Clark,
residents of the late segregated dis
trict in South Kinston, were tried in
Municipal Court Monday morning
on vagrancy charges. They were
held in bonds for Superior Cjourt.
All furnished bail.
These women were supposed to be
all who didn't comply with the order to
evacuate the recently closed red light
district.
War Minister at Tokio
Says They Declined to
Unite in Campaign
Against Bolsheviki Dif
ference in Principles
HUNGARIANS TO GET
OF WAY
ALLIES 0
UT
(By The United Press)
Budapest, Marf 30 (Delayed). A
Hungarian eteamfer is being prepar
ed to convoy down the Danube to
Belgrade any Allied or neutral citi
zens who wish to '' leave the city. The
trip will be mad uhdeT the British
flag. ...The, ftrejL4anjr is . increasing
daily. Eighty women at Szekesfehsa
volunteered but were refused.
lectric Railways
in the Carolinas
ANERl(piiL5
JAMES I. ME3TROVITCH,
Sergeant, Company C, 11th
Infantry.
Sergt Mestrovitch (deceased),
decorated for exceptional brav
ery in saving the life of his
company commander at FI.
mette, France, August 10, 1018.
Seeing his captain lying wouuded
thirty yards in front of the line,
after his company bad with
drawn to a sheltered position .
behind a stone wall, Sergt Mes
trovitch voluntarily left cover
and crawled through heavy .ma
chine gun and shell fire to where
the olficer lay. Sorgt. Mestro
vitch took the officer upon his
back and crawled back to a
place of snfety, where he ad
ministered first aid treatment,
his exceptional heroism saving
the officer's life. Sergt. Mcstro
vltch's home was in Fresno, CaL
(By the United Press)
Washington, Mar. 31. Prelimi
nary figures of the forthcoming quin
quennial report on the electric rail
ways of the states of North Caro-
, and South Carolina have been
given out by the Bureau of the Cen
sus. :
The statistics relate to the years
ending December 31, 1917, 1912, and
1907.
The figures show substantial gains
n the electric railway industry for
both the 5-year periods 1912-1917 and
1907-1912. The number of operating
companies was 19 in 1917 (North
Carolina 12, South Carolina 7), 19 in
1912 (North Carolina 13, South Caro
lina 6), and 18 in 1907 (North Caro
lina 11, South Carolina 7). The mile
age of single track in North Caro
lina in 1917 amounted to 228, repre
senting an increase of 19.6 per' cent,
as compared with 1912 and 113.8 per
cent, as compared with 1907. The
corresponding mileage for South
Carolina was 314, an increase of 37.5
per cent, as compared with 1912 and
139 per cent-, a compared with 1907.
The electric-railway employees in
1917, in the (two Istatea combined,
numbered 2,891.
Conditions Building
Circles Improving
(By The United Press)
Washington, Mar. 31. A decided
ly optimistic tone is found in reports
and statements issued by the De
partment of Labor during the last
10 days in so far as they deal witn
building and construction work. Data
gathered from all parte of the coun
try sneak convincingly of an increa.se
in building and construction worn, j
especially in the 'Middle West, where
private interests are ,deci4edly ac
tive. - -
Bank clearings are comparatively
large. Retail business is unusually
active. There is a noticeable accel
eration of advertising activities.
For the first time eince 1907 real
estate in the metropolitan district of
New York City is active.
One encounters everywhere a feel
ing that gradual resumption of busi
ness is under way.
There is a significant tone of fin
ality in expressions on the wage
level question. There seema to be
eeneral belief that wages should re-
DEBS CANNOT GET
REHEARING OF CASE
(By the United Press)
Washington, jMar. 31. The Su
preme Court today denied Eugene V,
Debs' application for a rehearing of
his conviction under the espionage
act. The court several weeks ago
affirmed Debs' conviction and sen
tence of 10 years in the penitentiary
for utterances in a speech at Can
ton, Ohio.
Bernstorff Essays
Part of a Democrat
By Frank J. Taylor
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Berlin, Mar. 6 (By Mail). Count
Bernstorff has joined the ranks of
the democrats. He admits he has
joined the party and the party ad
mits he has been taken into the fold,
though no statement came out of
ficially ' . .'
Bernstorff 's fluctuation into ! the
democratic party' came out in an un
conscious and amusing way. In the
early days of the revolution, In De
cember, he spoke of "the democrats"
and "the socialists."
By the end of January Bernstorff
spoke, unconsciously or otherwise, of
w democrats."
Joining the democrats has re-estab
lished Bernstorff solidly with the
government, since the democrats are
in coalition with the majority so
cialists.-.." " -"
(By the United Press)
London, Mar. 31. American troops
have refused to cooperate with the
Japanese in fighting bolsheviki near
Blagovestchensk, War Minister Tan
aka declared in answering questions
Wednesday in the Japanese house of
representatives. ,
Asked if the Americans' refusal to
cooperate with the Japanese amount
ed to insubordination, Tanaka re
plied that he understood the order
making General Otani Allied torn
mander in that region was effective
only when consistent with the prin
ciples of America's national policies
The American attitude was proi-
ably due to a difference between
Americans and Japanese as to what
constitutes bolshevism.
If You Have Had the
Influenza Read This;
It's Highly Important
- t
Df. T. F. Wickliffo, health officer,
issues the following:
"It is being found that a large
percentage of those who had influ
enza during the epidemic have been
left with damaged hearts, lung or
kidneys. ' These ; defects will In
time, if untreated, become handicaps
which will : make ' it impossible for
such citizens to do their usual work,
and .may finally, lead-.to. ill health or
invalidism.- In view of these facts
the American Public Health Associa
tion and the North Carolina State
Board of Health are urging every
person who had influenza to have a
thorough physical examination made
in order to find out if they have been
left with those defects. If such de
fects exist, it Is highly important
that they be treated before they be
come pronounced or permanent.
The (Lenoir Cbunty Health , De
partment has secured the cooperation
of the State Sanatorium and will pro
vide a free physical examination of.
any adult citizen who applies for it.
It is important that every adult be
examined, especially the ones who
had. influenza, and you are urged
either to apply to your family , phy
sician or to the Board of Health and
arrange for an examination at once."
War-Savings Stamps
for Old Rags, Etc.
(By The United Press)
Richmond, !Mar. 31. The old rag
picker, the buyer of leather, the col
lector of old paper and rubber are
all to be asked to take a big part in
the 1919 war-savings campaign in
the Fifth Federal Reserve District.
There are 556 buyers of waste ma
terial in the Fifth District. Every
one of these will be asked to join in
the thrift campaign by giving thrift
stamps in exchange for junk.
The War (Loan Organization of
the district ia planning an extensive
educational campaign among house
wives as to the value of the old pa
pers, rags, rubber, leather and other
articles that usually find their way
into the trash pile.
COTTON
Futures quotations Monday were:
May . .
July ..
October1
Open.
24.70
22.30
20.40
Close.
25.06
22.68
"20S8
MEXICAN-JAP DEAL
State Department Wires to
Ambassador to For
ward Report
CANT CONFIRM THE SALE
Of Land to Orientals in
Violation of Monroe Doc
trine Banilly Not Post
ed Ishii Has Nothing to
Say '
(By the United Press)
Washington, Mar. 31. The State
Department has asked the American
embassy at Mexico City for ' full
report on the alleged ' Mexican con
cession of land in Lower Calif oro in
to Japanese interests. In making the
announcement the department added
that it had no official word from
Mexico on the reported concession,
and was unable to determine yet
whether the land was the same that
was to be sold two weeks ago by the
California-Mexican Land Company to
Japanese Interests or whether the
concession had actually been made
or the report had merely been aent
out as a feeler.
Mexican Ambassador Bonilly has
no advices regarding the reported
negotiations, but has asked Mexico
City for information. ,
It is known here that the Mexi
can view is that the transfer of,
property to Japanese -citizens or
companies is not in violation of the
Monroe Doctrine. Japanese Am
bassador Ishii declined to discuss the
reported deal.
Don't Get Notion He
Opposes Good Roads
Not Everyone Coming
Back Is a Hero, Says
the Stars and Stripes
Wagoner Edgar J. Pate, with th
army of occupation, writes The Free
Press that he will be more than glad
hit the home soil of Sand Hill
when he is released from service
overseas. France, Luxemburg, Bel
gium, Germany, all fail to measure
up to Sand Hill. For three or four
months Pate saw a lot of hard ser
vice, but the "doughboys" got the
hardest work, of course. "I will
gladly take off my hat to a dough
boy, any time."
Pate encloses a clipping from the
Stars and Stripes condemning "bo
gus storiee of bogus heroes now
making the rounds in the States, and
citing the cases of "the 149 fighting
civilians" and a certain artillery
regiment. The gunners in question,
from the West, got to the front No
vember 13, and still, when they re
turned home, the press lauded the
outfit as a "tattered, battle-scarred
outfit." The civilians, who were de
scribed as having "braved shell fire,"
fought at Cambrai, faced gas and
machineguns, didn't do anything of
the sort, Stars and Stripes asserts
emphatically. They built barges and
the like at EbTdeaux, 650 kilometers
from the front.
Local receipts were light.
New York Report.
New York, Mar. 31. J"irst call
cotton prices were heavy, new con
tracts being off 7 to 21 and old off
30 to 45 points. There was selling of
old-style contracts but it was not
Assisting Widovvs is
Work of Australia Now
Sydney, Auetralia, Mar. 1. (By
Mail). Nearly $SO,000 has beer
spent by the government of Neis
South Wales during the past year o:
rental assistance to. widows of sol
diers and widowed mothers of sol
diers who have made the supreme
Nearly every member of the To-
iacco Board of Trade is in favor of '
he road bond issue, as shown in a
ommunioation printed in The Free
Press Saturday; bearing the names
of the members, favoring road im
provements and the . reasons for
their stand. , '
Mr. W. L. Holderby's signature
was omitted. He explained Monday
that he was. ill and did not attend
the meeting.
"Please don't get the idea that I
am opposed to good roade," he said.
Mr. Holderby called at The Free
Press office to state that he is very
much in favor of roads.
Miners' Wives Are
Threatening Strike
London, Mar. 15 (By Mail). A
strike of wives and daughters who
keep house for England's 1,000,000
coal miners is proposed to impress
the LloydGeorge government with
the necessity of keeping its pre-election
promises of better housing conditions.
Agitators now are boosting the
movement at "neighborhood gather
ings of miners' wives.
MOVEMENT TO HOLD COTTON.
PROGRESSING FAVORABLY.
Raleigh, Mar. 29. "Everything
looks fine for a reduced acreage in
cotton over the South. North Caro
lina must keep faith with the other
states," is the message sent by T.
D. Parker from Memphis to O. J.
McConnell, secretary of the North
Carolina Cotton Association. Mr.
Parker has been at "Memphis attend
ing a meeting on cotton acreage re
duction and the holding of the 1918
crop. He states that fine reports
were received from all the Southern
States. According to Mr. McConnell,
this movement for a reduction in cot
ton acreage is a general one over
North Carolina afeo, and he expects
that the farmers will fully keep faith
with farmers of other states. : ,
NOT A BAD-LOOKING
SEXTETTE, EITHER.
The Free Press inaugurated a pic
ture gallery in Saturday's paper. On
page 4 half a dozen likenesses of that
tihiv, prominent men as mey jooxea
14 years ago were printed. The
were omitted, purposely, but
eaders guessed the identity of
,c. They were Messrs. K. H.
I, J. T. Skinner. Dr. II. Tu'.'.,
i. W. ITownr?, ir. r. V ' V